In today’s society I am very concerned with my personal
privacy. Privacy is having your own
personal things that no one else is allowed to view. I feel like there are more and more ways to
track people’s private things today than there was in past years. For example, if you set your Facebook to “private”
there are still ways that people and companies can find your information and
look through your profile. It is
important for people today to realize that anything put on the internet whether
you think it’s private or not can be seen by millions of people. I feel like today our privacy has decreased
tremendously and although some of this is our fault for posting things online
and not being careful it is also a majority of the technology that is accessible
today. The article on Facebook and privacy really opened my eyes to things I didn’t
know about my privacy on Facebook. I was
shocked to find out that even if I’m not logged into Facebook and go to a page
that has a Facebook “like” button it acknowledges that I was at that site. The article also goes into discuss how it may
not only be who is seeing our information but what we actually put up for those
people to see. I definitely agree that
people today are posting way too personal things on social networks without
thinking of who can see this. You may
think that you have set all your settings to private but it’s important to
understand that other people can access your information. I didn’t like that the article said that in
the future Facebook is going to allow users access to your searches and page
views, time and date, and even IP addresses while you’re logged into
Facebook. This makes me question whether
or not I should even have a Facebook and if the benefit of having one outweighs
the privacy issue that is continuing to grow.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Monday, November 5, 2012
News Report #4
“U.S. judge tosses Apple vs. Google
lawsuit over patents”
Dan Levine and Alexei Oreskovic
11/5/12
With
the ever growing popularity of smartphones, patent wars have been on the
rise. This article talks about how Apple
had a lawsuit against Google, as well as Motorola, stating that Motorola’s
licensing practices were unfair. Apple
believes that Google and partners that use the operating system known as
Android for their mobile services are a copy of their iOS smartphone software. There have been many ongoing battles between
cell phone servers about whose software is copying whose; however, Apple was
unsuccessful in the courts and the case was thrown out the morning of the
trial. Of course Google had no problem
with the trial being dropped and have stated that they are “interested in
reaching an agreement with Apple”.
I
believe that as technology continues to grow so will these “wars”. If everyone is using the latest technologies
out there then there is bound to be some overlap in these software systems. Although
being the first to have the newest and best operating system is of high
importance to these companies I don’t think it is something that our courts
need to be held up with. Like I said
there is only so much these companies can do before they all start looking the
same. However, I don’t understand how
the judge felt as though she was not legally allowed to hear Apple’s
claim. I honestly think that there are
much more important things to be worried about than what company is using the
same software as another. Soon there will be another software that we are all going
to be using and even more “wars” about who is copying who.
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